Cordova: Azure Devops Pipeline Xcode build failed: Pods-Name does not support provisioning profiles. Pods-Name does not support provisioning profiles

Question

Error:

Pods-Name does not support provisioning profiles. Pods-Name does not support provisioning profiles, but provisioning profile MobileAppProvisioning has been manually specified. Set the provisioning profile value to "Automatic" in the build settings editor. (in target 'Pods-Name' from project 'Pods')

• Xcode: 12.4
• Cordova CLI: 10.0.0
• cordova-ios: 6.2.0

I build the ios app using the Ionic Cordova framework and build and deploy using Azure pipelines(CI). so, I have the following tasks in my Azure pipeline:

• npm install
• install cocoapod
• cordova platform add ios
• cordova build ios
• installing apple certificates
• Xcode build - throws the error when ARCHIVE with Above mentioned error
• Copy file to artifacts
• Publish artefacts

I have searched online for this and the solution is to change the Podfile and add the below code:

post_install do |installer|
    installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
        target.build_configurations.each do |config|
            config.build_settings['EXPANDED_CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY'] = ""
            config.build_settings['CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED'] = "NO"
            config.build_settings['CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED'] = "NO"
        end
    end
end

But, As Azure pipeline generates the ios project dynamically when I run the command Cordova platform add ios and Pod file generates dynamically.

so, How to modify the Podfile in Azure pipeline to update the Podfile and resolve the error?

Answer 1

Cordova does not add support for iOS orientation by default, but you can get there by adding build hooks.

To make this working, I followed these steps:

Add the following to your config.xml file:

<platform name="ios">
        <hook src="iosAfterPlatformAdd.js" type="after_platform_add" />
</platform>

Create a file named iosAfterPlatformAdd.js in the top-level directory and copy the below code in the file:

const fs = require("fs");
const execSync = require("child_process").execSync;
console.log('iosAfterPlatformAdd hook called');

execSync(`cd platforms/ios && pod deintegrate && cd ../../`, {
  stdio: "inherit"
});

const searchString = 'use_frameworks!';
const fileName = './platforms/ios/Podfile';
const appendText = `${searchString}
post_install do |installer|
  installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
    target.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings['EXPANDED_CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY'] = ""
      config.build_settings['CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED'] = "NO"
      config.build_settings['CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED'] = "NO"
    end
  end
end`;

try {
  const data = fs.readFileSync(fileName, { encoding: 'utf8', flag: 'r' });
  let content = data.replace(searchString, appendText);
  const updatedData = fs.writeFileSync(fileName, content);
  console.log('Podfile', content);
} catch (err) {
  console.error(err)
}

execSync("pod install --project-directory='./platforms/ios/'", {
  stdio: "inherit"
});
execSync("pod update --project-directory='./platforms/ios/'", {
  stdio: "inherit"
});

From the command line, run the below commands to change the Podfile automatically:

cordova platform rm ios

cordova platform add ios

You should see the added lines in the Podfile file at this point. then the Archive and resolved the issue.